The Andean country is the last former Spanish colony in South America to celebrate its bicentennial. The other eight South American countries that emancipated themselves from the Spanish crown celebrated their bicentennials long before. Bolivia and Ecuador commemorated it in 2009. Venezuela, Argenti
The Guarani Indians form the largest native people, in terms of number of individuals, living in Brazil. They originate from the trunk of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family. Where do the Guarani live? In Brazil, the Guarani live in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, Paraná, Rio
The Institutional Act nº 5 was published on December 13, 1968, signed by President Costa e Silva and marked the hardest phase of the period of military dictatorship in Brazil. The trigger for AI-5 was the proposal to boycott the military by deputy Márcio Moreira Alves (1936-2009). AI-5 Summary Wit
OLD AND NEW MODELS IN 20TH CENTURY SOCIETY The decade of the 1970s was particularly important for the history of Peru because an emerging military class wanted to impose its ideas and transform the country. The revolutionary model that the leaders of that adventure had chosen was based on an ideolog